Dan Winters: Photographs from the Science Fiction Issue

Dan Winters is the man behind the photographs—a cyborg, an alien, a leaping man—that appear throughout this week’s New Yorker, our first ever Science Fiction Issue. “It is always challenging to create a body of work that is cohesive as a whole yet addresses each story individually,” Winters told me. “A couple of the images were particularly enjoyable for me to make. For the Burgess piece, an ophthalmologist friend helped me so that I could make a portrait of my own eye.” And for the image of the man falling off a building that ran with Sam Lipsyte’s story, Winters constructed a scale set of a nineteen-thirties New York skyscraper, mounted on a scaffolding: “We hired a stuntman who was a former Olympic platform diver to jump off of the structure into an air mattress below.” Take a look at this collection of all six of Winters’s photographs from our Science Fiction Issue, and watch Winters’s video trailer for the issue.